Palestinians in the Gaza Strip continued to struggle to bring food to their families on Sunday, even as a ceasefire continued to hold.

While U.N. officials said that progress was being made with aid being allowed into Gaza, Palestinians said earlier in the day people were climbing in trucks with aid, trying to take supplies.

Ahmed al-Tellawy expressed his disappointment at the way some jump into the trucks to take whatever they can. "Everyone takes to the trucks, to the aid, and attacks.” said the resident of Southern Gaza Strip.

Children climbed on empty trucks that travelled through Khan Younis on worn-out roads with destroyed and heavily damaged buildings on either side, some of the wreckage left behind from two years of war.

Nearby, a makeshift stall offered some food supplies, selling items on the street, with one of the vendors heard advertising the sale of beans and lentils.

"We can't deal with the theft... we come and buy goods for the members of the household. Whatever the house needs, we buy it," al-Tellawy said, speaking as he carried a box of goods to bring to his family.

A ceasefire in the war in Gaza was holding for the third day on Sunday as aid agencies worked to rush in more desperately needed aid to the besieged territory under the truce deal.

More ramped-up aid was being readied for Gaza.

The war began when Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 killing some 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage. In Israel’s ensuing offensive, more than 67,600 Palestinians were killed in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

Eri Kaneko, a spokesperson for the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said cooking gas supplies have entered Gaza for the first time since March.

Other aid moving through included flour, fruit and meat.

She added that officials were also given additional access to move in medical equipment and help move Palestinians from flood-prone areas to safer locations ahead of the winter.

Humanitarian organizations said they’re preparing to surge aid into the Gaza Strip, especially food that’s been in short supply in many areas.

That includes some 400 trucks from Egypt on Sunday that will have to undergo Israeli inspection before being allowed into the strip.

The Israeli defense body in charge of humanitarian aid in Gaza said around 600 trucks of aid per day will be entering soon, as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement.

The world’s leading authority on food crises -the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification - said in August that Gaza City was gripped by a famine that was likely to spread across the territory without a ceasefire and an end to restrictions on humanitarian aid.

The larger task of rebuilding Gaza is daunting, as much of it is in rubble and most of its two million residents displaced.